Capacity

Capacity is a collection of market data available on Market benchmarks that provides a view of ocean freight market capacity and offers a detailed look into the amount of offered and blanked TEUs on the corridor level.

Xeneta offers an overview of the overall offered and blanked market capacity, as well as information on specific carrier alliances.

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We source our Capacity data from our partners at Sea-Intelligence.

View capacity data

To access the capacity and blanked sailings data, go to Market benchmarks and select Capacity in the Change dataset menu — the graph with market rates for the selected origin and destination will be updated with the information on offered market capacity:

By default, the graph shows offered capacity data, but you can also add blanked capacity to view both datapoints alongside the market rates:

If you want to see capacity by carrier alliance, click on the Add comparison button to the right of the graph, and then go to Capacity > Alliance to select an alliance to review:

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When selecting an alliance you can only view either their offered or blanked capacity, but not both at the same time.

Capacity methodology

The data on capacity calculated by Sea-Intelligence is based on actual named vessel schedules issued by ocean carriers.

Sea-Intelligence assigns vessels and blank sailings to the departure week from the last port in the origin region. The only exception are the Asia – North Europe and Asia – Mediterranean corridors, where the reference point is the vessel’s planned Suez Canal departure (or where the blanked vessel was supposed to depart from Suez) minus 21 days.